painter and pianist roy hewish having a crafty smoke 

ninety year old aunt mavis flaunting her magnolia 

hype the aged

my energetic aunt mavis was ninety last week

i phoned for permission to visit and she said she needed a couple of hours because she was planting some seeds in her immaculate and lovely garden

we visited her, and as we were leaving i saw, with my very own eyes, that she was skipping up the garden steps back to the house

contented inhabitants of bexhill-upon-sea

this would make a nice cover for that virginia woolf book about the lighthouse ... 

vieve forward's medal showing colin and sylvia relaxing in arcadia 

colin and sylvia forward modelled in wax 

family stuff

i cycled to fulham after work to meet my sister at a foundry

she's designed a medal commemorating our parents, colin and sylvia forward, and we met the gentlemen who will change her wax model into bronze

the medal shows the parents in profile on one-side, and relaxing "en-fete" on the reverse

i think my sister is pretty amazing

more news of this work in the next few weeks, as and when ...

we went to the borough market next to southwark cathedral ... cheese spotting 

this time last year ... this time next year 

spring springing in putney 

someone forgot the thames is tidal but we tried not to smirk 

gone to lunch !

we walked beside the river the day before the boat race

someone had left their pride and joy on the slipway, perhaps not realizing the river is tidal, not just low

of course, we tried not to smirk

an illuminating juxtaposition in battersea 

not that we get a lot of vampires in putney ... 

hammersmith bridge with natives 

a dear old routemaster in the twilight of her years 

saturday morning still-life 

millenium gas holder - built to last  

Is it a gig ?